Israeli historian and author of popular science bestsellers
Yuval Noah Harari
Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli medievalist, military historian, public intellectual, and popular science writer.
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French fashion designer (1936–2008)
Yves Saint Laurent
Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent, better known as Yves Saint Laurent, was a French fashion designer who founded his eponymous fashion label in 1962.
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Pope
Zachary
Pope Zachary was the bishop of Rome from 3 or 5 December 741 until his death on 15 March 752.
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Iraqi British architect, designer and painter (1950–2016)
Zaha Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid was an Iraqi and British architect, artist, and designer.
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Greek philosopher, founder of Stoicism
Zeno of Citium
Zeno of Citium was a Hellenistic philosopher from Citium, Cyprus.
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Greek philosopher (c. 495 – c. 430 BC)
Zeno of Elea
Zeno of Elea was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea, in what is now Southern Italy.
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Chinese Taoist philosopher (c. 369–286 BC)
Zhuang Zhou
Zhuang Zhou, honorifically often known as Zhuangzi, was an influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th century BCE during the Warring States period, a period of great development in Chinese philosophy, the Hundred Schools of Thought.
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Founder of Zoroastrianism
Zoroaster
Zarathushtra Spitama, more commonly known as Zoroaster or Zarathustra, was an Iranian religious reformer who challenged the tenets of the contemporary Ancient Iranian religion, becoming the spiritual founder of Zoroastrianism.
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Georgian politician, dissident and writer, first President of Georgia (1991–1992)
Zviad Gamsakhurdia
Zviad Konstantines dze Gamsakhurdia was a Georgian politician, human rights activist, dissident, professor of English language studies and American literature at Tbilisi State University, and writer who became the first democratically elected President of Geor
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